In the late hours of January 3, 2019, 23-year-old Black / African American female Shiann Peace was shot inside an apartment complex near the intersection of South Rural Road and East Broadway Road in Tempe, Arizona. Responding officers were called to the scene after reports of gunfire and found her suffering from life-threatening injuries; she was discovered at a residence on South Granada Drive and rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
According to contemporaneous reporting, neighbors described being jolted awake by several gunshots and then seeing people running from the apartment. In the confusion outside, one person was heard crying out, “she's dead, my baby's dead,” capturing the panic and grief unfolding in the courtyard. Coverage of the case noted that Peace was a young mother and that family members confirmed she had been pregnant with another child at the time of the shooting, compounding the loss for her relatives and friends.
Detectives from the Tempe Police Department opened a homicide investigation and stated that they were working to understand what led to the gunfire that night, but early reports indicated that no information about a possible motive had been made public. Police did not release any suspect description, and local coverage emphasized that officers were still actively piecing together the circumstances of the crime; the incident was one of two shootings reported in the Tempe area within a short period, and investigators declined to say whether the cases might be connected.
Public memorial and case-summary pages created in the years since her death continue to list the killing as an unsolved homicide, inviting visitors to share any new information and to keep her memory alive. These summaries, along with the original news reports, describe the investigation as ongoing, and based on the available public record there have been no publicly reported arrests or named suspects in connection with the shooting of Shiann Peace as of the most recent updates.
